Blacking-brush



(No Model.)

J. L. SPALDING. BLAGKING BRUSH.

N. PETERS. Ptwxutnugmpher. wanhingron. D. C.

UNITED STATES JOHN LUTHER sPALDING,

PATENT rricn.

OF AITKIN, MINNESOTA.

eLACKlNe-BRUSH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 391,491, dated October 23, .1888.

Application filed March 30,1888.

To @ZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN LUTHER SPAL- DING, a citizen of the United States, residing at Aitkin, in the county of Aitkin and State of Minnesota, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Blacking-Brushes, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in blacking-brushes, being a device that can be carried in the pocket and at any time taken out and used to rub the shoes over with a blacking and polishing compound and afterward returned to the pocket without soiling the hands or clothes; and it consists in the construction and novel combination of parts hereinafter described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure l represents a perspective view of the device closed. Fig. 2 represents a central longitudinal section of the device. Fig. 3 represents a perspective view of the protective cap. Fig. 4 represents a perspective view of the sponge-brush detached. Fig. 5 represents a side view of the regulating valve-rod. Fig. 6 represents the central longitudinal section of the cylindrical receptacle that forms the body of the device.

Referring to the drawings by letter, A designates the cylindrical body of the device, formed, preferably, of plate metal and having one end, a,preferably rounded, the said end being the upper end. The end c hasa central circular opening, a', formed by the introversion of the metal, which introversion constitutes the internally-tapped axial sleeve a2. The opposite or lower end, c3, of the body is reduced in size, being separated from the larger main portion by the circumferential shoulder at, having a height equal to the thickness of the shell. The said end is externally threaded, as at a5, to engage the internallythreaded mouth of the rounded protective cap B, that screws thereon and closes the device.P NVhen closed, the external surfaces ofthe body and cap are flush with each other.

At the lower end, c3, of the body is the inwardly-standing peripheral iiauge,b,threaded on its edge to engage the tapped stem c of the sponge-brush holder O, which holder is tubular and provided at a suitable point, about midway of its length, with the milled-edge collar c. Vhen said holder is in place, its inner orifice, c, opens into the body or receptacle. The outer end of said holder is ared or flanged outwardly, as at c3, for the better attachment of the sponge-brush D, which is secured upon said outer end by wires or otherwise, its base abutting against the collar c'. The said sponge-brush is roughly cone-shaped, and the outer orifice of the holder opens about centrally within it.

When the device is closed, the sponge-brush rests within the rounded protective cup B.

E is the conical regulating-valve, lwhich enters the inner orifice ofthe holder; and e is the rod of the same running axially through the body and at its tapped portion e engaging the sleeve c2. On its end, outside the body, the said rod is provided with the round-cd head e2,

by means of which it may be turned with the fingers.

When the cap is screwed on the body or receptacle, the latter being full of the blacking and the valve E screwed tightly into the inner orifice of the sponge-brush holder, the device can be carried in the pocket without risk of spilling the contents. When it is desired to use the device, the cap is removed and the conical valve screwed out from the orifice c2 more or less, according to the amount of blacking desired to dow.

Having described my invention, I claim- 1. The combination of the receptacle having a threaded ange, b, at its lower end, the cap tted to said end, the brush-holder having a threaded portion engaging said flange, a milled iiange, c, a hanged portion to which the brush is secured, and a valve engaging the brushholder, as set forth.

2. The herein -described blacking-brush, comprising the body having the internallythreaded introverted axial sleeve at its outer end, the threaded inner end, and the threaded peripheral flange standing inwardl from its inner end, the protective cap screwing on the inner end of the body, the sponge-brush, the

tubular sponge-brush holder screwing into thc In testimony that I claim the foregoing as 1n y.

threaded peripheral flange, and the conical own Ihaveheretoafxed my signaturein pres- Valve resting in the internal orifice of the ence of two Witnessesg brush-holder and having a rod provided with J CHN LUTHER SPALDING. 5 a threaded part to engage the introverted Vitnesses:

axial sleeve, and a head on its end Without the FRANK E. SEAVEY,

body, substantially as specified. l E. B. LOWELL. 

